linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] serial: 8250_fintek: Print Fintek chip name

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Date:   Tue, 15 Dec 2020 07:30:38 +0100
From:   Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
To:     "Ji-Ze Hong (Peter Hong)" <hpeter@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@...m.it>
Cc:     "Gustavo A . R . Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] serial: 8250_fintek: Print Fintek chip name

On 15. 12. 20, 1:29, Ji-Ze Hong (Peter Hong) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Greg Kroah-Hartman 於 2020/12/14 下午 09:42 寫道:
>>>       pdata->pid = chip;
>>> +
>>> +    pr_info("%s%s%s Fintek %s\n",
>>> +        uart->port.dev ? dev_name(uart->port.dev) : "",
>>> +        uart->port.dev ? ": " : "",
>>> +        uart->port.name,
>>> +        chip_name);
>>
>> Drivers, if all goes well, should not print anything to the kernel log.
>> This isn't ok.
>>
>> And even if it was, dev_info() would be the correct thing to do...
> 
> Maybe can transform pr_info() to dev_dbg() for debug usage ?

And even then, the newly introduced fintek_8250.chip_name is unused.

thanks,
-- 
js